G-CHASER Mission Successfully Launched

The G-CHASER mission, which includes experiments from teams in the U.S., Japan, and Norway, is the fourth of nine sounding rocket missions taking part in the Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp, an international collaboration to explore the polar atmosphere.

CAPER-2 Launch Successful

ASC and NASA launched the CAPER-2 sounding rocket on January 4th, 2019, at 09:27:00 UTC.

Successful Start of Grand Challenge

Four large sounding rockets were launched from ASC launch sites on Andøya and on Svalbard within 24 hours. The vehicles were owned by NASA and were a part of a project called the Grand Challenge Initiative – CUSP (GCI CUSP).